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Brubeck is great. if you like that add something by The Modern Jazz Quartet to your collection.
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To the belle Canadienne:
Yep, pure antithesis to jazz, but he did do a mean rendition of "Gilligan's Island" [my-turn-to-run-and-duck emoticon]
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Excuse me? I've never heard anyone who actually lives in the Cincinnati area call it "Cincinnaata." It sort of gives a whole new aspect to Cincinnati to hear Proper Bostonians call it "Sin-Sin-Naughty!"  wow
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Paul Desmond's sound is one of my favorites (I think even Jackie would approve), however, Stan Getz should be right up your...
What are some other words for "alley" (that place behind your garage (car port) that one keeps the trash cans (rubbish receptacles) here in the "Very Large Northeastern Town in Illinois"?
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What are some other words for "alley" (that place behind your garage (car port) that one keeps the trash cans (rubbish receptacles) here in the "Very Large Northeastern Town in Illinois"?
I don't know about Illinois but I can give you some Canadian (Manitoba) alternatives. I would call it a "back lane", where people keep their "garbage cans". Also, for me, a garage has a door and is completely enclosed, whereas a carport is sort of a roof on legs, with some walls, or no walls, but definitely not enclosed.
However - now that I've moved the "the oldest city in North America" I have come to realize that back lanes and garages are relatively new things. We live in an older part of St. John's so there are no back lanes - everyone's yard abuts everyone else's. Everyone parks on the street, unless they've paved their front "lawn" (postage stamp size) into a parking pad. And no one has garbage cans because the wind would make the neighbourhood into a very dangerous place on garbage day!
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If you ever visit Newfoundland you should basically assume that no matter how you THINK a name is pronounced, be it ever so simply spelled, you're probably wrong (compared to what the locals would say). For example
Pouch Cove = "Pooch cove"
Baie d'Espoir = "Bay despair"
Baie Verte = "Bay vurt"
Topsail = "Topsl"
Baccalieu = "BaccaLOO"
Quidi Vidi = "Kiddy Viddy"
The list goes on...I've become so used to most of them that I no longer notice them as odd pronunciations!
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This Board always makes me realize how varied English really is. In the last three posts we have had three different definitions for the same item: rubbish receptacle, trash can, and garbage can.
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You can add dustbin for the one outside your home and rubbish bins for the ones in public places.
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Recently read an article in a UK publication about something being "ready for the pedal can". Loved that. We have one in our kitchen but I'd never heard that term before.
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Euphemism in South changes "pecan" to "p'cahn" to avoid causing hearer to think of vile urine container.
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